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Firstly, sorry as i know there are a million laptop threads but mine is so slow and I dont know whats wrong with it, or whether its just capacity?

It struggles to load pages on the tinterweb and its driving me nuts.

Any suggestions/checks I can do??

delete all the porn off of it Luc

how much crap are you running on startup? Often uneeded processes can slow things up.

I don't know to be honest, how do I find out?

I didnt think I was running anything and its only recently slowed down last 2 weeks or so)

run msconfig then look on the startup tab.

I dont know how to do that :(

what OS are you using?

took your advice mate and ran spybot and the 9 problems it came up with seemed to be web related and it sems ok now!  Cheers!

it's worth looking at the startup options still as every program you install tries to add a few processes to the list, I sorted my mum's out the other week and deleted 46 stratup processes.

And norton but thats another story. I hate norton.

Just removed pretty much all of my start ups!  Loads of icons vanished too.  heres to hoping this helps!

Oh it will Luci, spyware and startup options are usually the main cause of slow PC's.

How much ram has it got? Can you upgrade it?

Ram is pretty cheap and lack of it is normally the first cause of performance issues, well worth installing the maximum you can. Make sure the hard drive isn't fragmented as well, that can cause problems.

Otherwise, a clean re-install of Windows normally speeds things up as well due to the crap build up over time.

*Run a spyware check.
*Run an antivirus check.
*If your hard drive is close to full up that will slow down the computer.
*If it's still slow then you probably need to remove Vista.

Oh and clear your temporary internet files. Probably do that first.

I thought I'd rehash this thread instead of starting another. My laptop is also painfully slow, but I'm useless with computers, how do I run a spybot?

see mega post

http://thetownend.com/index.php/board,7.0.html